Essays on Enron

...Enron scandal # submitted Crimes are not a new thing in this world that we human beings are living in. Of all thecrimes that I have come across in my entire life, I have to admit that the Enron scandal was one that I could not relate to directly. It was something that I needed to read more about as it was a scandal that took place in the business world and it took me longer than usual to understand the gravity of the situation that took place in America.
In my opinion, the government was not expecting too much from the companies in the USA as the event of Enron scandal had shown this to be very much true. It was only after the scandal...

...Enron was a gas pipeline transmission company like many others. But its managers realized that embeddedin what appeared to be a commodity gas business was valuable information about product flow, supply, and demand. They established Enron Capital and Trade Resources to exploit this information through an innovative range of risk management contracts. The enterprise helped Enron grow its sales by 7 percent per year and its shareholder returns by 27 percent per year between 1988 and 1995 (Best practice and beyond: knowledge strategies 1998, p. 21-22)
In the mid-1990s, the Internet burst into the economic landscape. All of a sudden, all bets were off... NATURE OF THE BUSINESS Until the early 1990s, Enron...

...Enron Energy Policy Act The deregulation of the energy market in 1992 by the Bush administration paved the way for the rise of independent power merchants such as Enron. Independence in the energy industry enabled Enron to consolidate and become almost a monopoly in the US. The Enron scandal which led to instability in the energy market led the Bush Administration to pass the 2005 Energy Policy Act which repealed the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and reinstated regulation (Byrnes). The Energy Policy Act gave the Federal Regulatory commission powers to enforce its provisions and set out guideline on energy...

...Enron Enron began violating all four dimensions of business integrity capa when it became obsessed on increasing the value of its stock prices and the enjoyment of benefits that can be derived from it like bonuses and perks. With regard Arthur Andersen who is supposed to be a third party auditing firm, it instead entered into a business relationship with Enron that is considered to have a conflict of interest and eventually connived to cover the frauds committed by Enron. The relationship is already wrong at the beginning because Andersen lost its objectivity and independence as an auditing firm when it became an...

...Enron – The debacle and lessons learnt Introduction Quoted as the “Largest bankruptcy filed in US History” by the 7th largest company in the United States, Enron is a remarkable lesson to learn in the premise of “from riches to rags”, whereby a company, specifically top management, loses its integrity in 2001, most in part due to personal greed, resulting in the worst energy crisis, billions of dollars in losses, people losing their jobs and status as a willfully fraudulent company.
This research paper is an attempt to trace the roots of Enron, its executives, the steps they took to reach to the top, what exactly went wrong, and how this wrong was further fueled... by an individual’s personal...

...Enron fraud is a violation of the aspect of auditor independence as evident by Andersen having an office space in Enron’s headquarters that was permanent. This served to reveal lack of auditor independence (Hill & Cronk 10). In addition, there is a possibility that Andersen overlooked Enron Corporation’s compliance with the required accounting policies, procedures and practices. In addition, Enron Corporation had relied on the auditing services from Andersen, resulting to him familiarizing with the corporations accounting policies and practices. The Enron scandal served to reveal the significance of auditor independence... Lecturer Question According to Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...

...Enron Paper: First Affiliation Enron Paper Introduction Enron was originally an American natural gas pipeline firm, which grew into a giant marketing and communication broker. Founded in Houston Texas in 1985, it had an approximate of 20,000 employees, and was a leading company in the production of electricity, natural gas, communications, paper and pulp, power plants and wastewater management. They later expanded in offering other services, such as wholesale business, making them worldwide suppliers of non-energy transactions. With all these ventures, they managed revenue of an estimated $101 billion by the year 2000....

...Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' is a Documentary movie based on the scandal of the Company dealing with Energy, Enron. The story portrays the fraudulent activities of the authorities at Enron, which to the infamous collapse of the business. The main human fallacy depicted, is greed---greed for money and power that drives the managers and the company heads to dip their hands in blood and eventually become bankrupt.
1. From the film, what exactly 'went wrong' and 'why' at Enron
Enron Corporation was listed among the top companies, of the Fortune... R.Preeti 20th April, 2007 Enron: ...

...Enron Corporation was the 7th largest company in the America and the market leader in the energy industry. In 2001 the company filed for at the time the biggest bankruptcy in United States history. The accounting scandal broke out when a whistleblower within the organization called Cheryl Wadkins talked to the authorities. The company used several mechanisms to cook up the books including market to market accounting and by hiding debt using off balance sheet transactions. The organization had a culture of greed and deception. The top executives of the company prior to the demise of the company violated the SEC insider trading bylaws by selling over $600 million in stocks. Executive... ?Background Enron...

...Enron Corporation Table of Contents Introduction 3 Corporate Governance at Enron Prior to its Failure 3 Strengthening of Corporate Governance Mechanism after the Enron Case 7
Conclusion 11
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References 13
Introduction
The changing dimension of the contemporary business activities has created greater requirements for the businesses to operate ethically and legally. Contextually, companies are quite focused upon depicting themselves as better performers in comparison to that of the competitors which further augments their competitiveness in the global business arena. Taking this aspect into consideration, it can be said that the...

...Enron The importance of core management functions such as planning, organizing, leading and controlling cannotbe more emphasized when their proper use are violated that could lead to a company’s demise. This was the case of Enron which this paper took a special interest because it showed that misuse of this core functions in management could result into the organization’s demise and in the case of Enron, even imprisonment of its executives. The four core functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling at Enron. a. Planning Planning is the stage where the vision of an organization is translated in setting the blueprint of the business direction. As a business entity... Teacher Organization:...

...Enron debacle reflects fundamental flaws in the modern corporate governance system. Many explanations exist with respect to the location of these weaknesses and the circumstances that might lead the critical systems to failure. The strange failure of Enron is complicated to analyze because of the uniqueness of its core facts. Enron has provided its employees sitting at powerful positions with too much autonomy unlike other public corporations. Enron evolved as a unique organization over a very short span of time. This might be why Enron’s board of directors’ passive performance cannot be applied to assess all boards. Enron is a unique data point... Article Summary It is conventionally believed that the...

...Enron and WorldCom economic crimes that significantly reduced American business confidence levels. This is because their share prices fell by wide margins at the securities markets; this in turn reduced shareholder wealth as many international investors shed their shares to reduce market exposure... ? Issues in corporate governance Executive summary This memorandum is directed to the Treasury Secretary and aimsto highlight major corporate governance issues affecting American companies. It begins by giving background information about the topic and how previous legislations for instance, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have not been able to fully tackle the issues of unethical conduct in private and public...

...ENRON ACCOUNTING SCANDAL It was in 1985 when Texas-based Houston Natural Gas merged with a Nebraska-based natural gas company, InterNorth that lead to the formation of the new company Enron. In its earlier years of operation, Enron started as a natural gas provider. By 1989, it had begun trading natural gas commodities and by 1994 it entered the market for trading electricity (www.mbaknol.com, 2011). Before Enron got into the troubles of “accounting scandal”, it was operating well and even had become one of the top companies in the world. It made revolutionary changes in the trading markets of energy which has opened the...

...Enron case Enron Corporation was based in Houston, Texas and was an American energy-trading and utilities company. At the height of the scandal, the company was the seventh largest corporation by revenue in the United States. Enron employed about 20,000 staff making it one of the largest in the industry it operated. However all these were before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001. Enron shares traded at $85 initially and after the fraud was discovered it plummeted to $0.30 in the sell-off immediately the fraud was exposed (Armour and McCahery, 38). The fraud exposed the corporation and it was realized that their reported financial condition was sustained considerably by an institutionalized... The Enron ...

...Enron Corporation of the of the Enron Corporation Introduction Based in Houston Texas, Enron Corporation was at one time, one of the largest corporations in the world. The company structure was created by the merger of Inter North and Houston Natural Gas by CEO Ken Lay in 1985. Prior to its closure in 2001 for reasons of fraud, accounting and reporting malpractices and misleading the public, Enron was regarded as one of America’s most successful corporations, even being America’s Most Innovative Company on the list of the Fortune 500, and regarded as one of the best companies to work for in the USA. Its CEO Ken Lay was one...

...Enron Scandal. The paper starts by giving a brief synapse of what Enron was and what the Enron Scandal was and why it caused... According to Kotler & Armstrong p. 97), “written regulations cannot possibly cover all potential marketing abuses and existing laws are often difficult to enforce. However, beyond written laws and regulations, business is also governed by social codes and rules of professional ethics”. As such, this paper seeks to discuss the significance of corporate ethics to business and the stakeholders involved. The paper discusses the impact of violating regulations and ethical considerations that that guide the conduct of business and it will mainly draw examples from the case of the...

...Enron Scandal Actions leading to the lawsuit Several things happened in the company that led to the lawsuit being filed against Enron. Many analysts have looked at the case of Enron and concluded that it was one of the biggest accounting scandals in the U.S history to be recorded. The first thing that happened was the deregulation of the natural gas by the government and this meant that the company’s executives could maintain agency over the earnings reports which were released to investors and employees. The agency contributed to the skewedness in the Enron’s earning reports as losses were not illustrated and investors kept investing in the seeming profitable company (Thomas, 2002). Second... ?The Enron ...

...Enron would have taken when confronted with issues involving disclosure of wrong doing and attempts to cover them up. The issue at stake is whether I, portraying myself as the fictional executive would blow the whistle on the unethical business practices which I have been made aware of and the knowledge that has come to my notice regarding the same.
First, I always believe that there have to be appropriate channels for whistle blowers to report unethical behavior and that there should be designated points of contact to take cognizance of the instances of wrong doing and take appropriate action on them. These should be in the form... This paper is about the of action that an up and coming executive at...

...Enron - The debacle and lessons learnt Introduction Quoted as the "Largest bankruptcy filed in US History" by the 7th largest company in the United States, Enron is a remarkable lesson to learn in the premise of "from riches to rags", whereby a company, specifically top management, loses its integrity in 2001, most in part due to personal greed, resulting in the worst energy crisis, billions of dollars in losses, people losing their jobs and status as a willfully fraudulent company.
This research paper is an attempt to trace the roots of Enron, its executives, the steps they took to reach to the top, what exactly went wrong, and how this wrong was further fueled... by an individual's personal...

...Enron Introduction American energy company Enron was founded in the year 1985. In the year 2001, the company had filed bankruptcydue to downfall in market value (Sridharan, Dickes & Caines, 2002). The bankruptcy of Enron was serious case of accounting scam, unethical corporate practices and dishonesty. The failure of Enron has raised the importance of effective management, leadership and organizational structure in an organization. (Enron Corp, 2001). In this report, the reasons of failure of Enron Corporation are discussed with the help of different organizational behavior theories. Furthermore, the role of leadership, management and organizational structure has also been... ? Business Failure: Enron...

...Enron Scandal Case Study Table of Contents Introduction 3 Enron Case 4 Role of Auditors in Enron’s Case 5 Role of External Auditors 5 Governance Structure 5 Main Actors 7 The Role of Organisation 7 Legal Context 7 Prevention 8 Conclusion and Recommendation 9 References 10 Introduction Businesses all around the globe are adopting concepts related to corporate governance in order to enhance the efficacy of their business practices. It is a well recognised fact that for a company to be successful it needs to protect the interest of the stakeholders, employees, internal as well as external customers and the environment in and around the company (Broadley, 2006). Foreign investors feel better... ...

...Enron Introduction Enron's case has marked history and has been studied from many different perspectives - such as financial, ethical, managerial, corporate governance etc. Enron is the real wonder of America's largest corporate bankruptcy; which has been in the limelight of the domestic and the international press, the financial people, the organizational behavior and also the ethical proponents. The major point here is that it was the offence that was a prime example of criminal activity and corruption in the corporate world. Here we will, analyze the case mostly from the financial accounting purpose.
Enron was found in 1985 from a merger of Houston Natural... The Regulation of Financial Reporting on...

...Enron (The Houston Astros' Public Relations Crisis) ID number: of A written case analysisProfessor's Name: Name of University (affiliation) Location of University: Date of Submission: December 02, 2013 Estimated Word Count = 959 (of text only) Introduction This paper discusses the unique case of the Houston Astros sports team which is based in Houston, Texas and a member of good standing of the major league baseball (MLB) industry. As a prominent sports team with a large fan base, it is a force to be reckoned with in the sports of American baseball which is perhaps the most popular team sports in the United States and also a major part of the American culture as a pastime when... ? Houston Astros and...

...Enron Corporation Scandal Enron Corporation was one of the most innovative corporations in the US through the 1990s. The company had maintained its standing in the corporate arena by innovatively creating a new economy rebel that questioned the old ways of the industries and their assets towards the unrestrictive e-commerce world. The company began to expand its operations by building up power plants as well as by operating gas lines but, this company became largely known not for these businesses but because of its unique trading businesses. Apart from its core business of buying and selling off gas the company diversified into unrelated businesses such as...

...Enron According to Desjardins and McCall (2005), David Duncan was a partner at Arthur Andersen, which was an accounting firm. With regards to the business dealings between Enron and Arthur Andersen, David Duncan had been appointed as the head auditor for Enron, and was thus expected to acquaint Enron’s management team of the firm’s position with regards to its accounts.
Moreover David had a duty towards the stockholders of Enron whereby he had the role of a whistle-blower in case of any uncertainties in the firm’s financial records. Considering that he was also a player in the accounting profession, he had the responsibility of upholding the integrity of his profession, which, according... Accounting of...

...Enron Ethical Breach Enron Ethical Breach [Institute’s Enron Ethical Breach Enron Corporation was a Houston-based American energy and services company established by Kenneth Lay in 1985. The company, which was believed to be the “most innovative company” of the United States and one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas, communications, pulp and paper company, was formed by merging Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth. From 1985 to 2001, the company continued to gain favor and confidence in the stock market, leading to share prices rising to a staggering $90 per share. The company owned a diverse line of services and commodities such as gas pipelines, electricity plants, water... ?Running Head:...

...Enron and Arthur Andersen hit... Accounting Controversies INTRODUCTION They say that accounting is the language of business. A German investor would be ably informed of how the United States company Kentucky Fried Chicken or any other enterprise has performed in terms of generating profits. The accounting language has its own set of technical words that a person studying basic accounting would easily understand. Accounting is governed by United States generally accepted accounting principles. The External auditor issues an opening as the fairness of the financial statements. The following paragraphs explain that some persons preparing the accounting statements do not follow the U.S. GAAP.
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...Enron case is one of the worst accounting scandals in US corporate history. After the Enron debacle the government made changes to the regulatory status of the accounting profession and created the Sarbanes and Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002. SOX was created in order to raise investor confidence after the Enron and WorldCom debacles (Techtarget, 2011). Enron had a business model that was somewhat difficult to understand, but as a public company they in theory had a CPA firm auditing all their financial statements. The company that was in charge of those audits at the time was one of the biggest five accounting firms in existence. Arthur Anderson was recognized by the industry as one of the most... The Enron...

...Enron. Enron has interest in providing energy and at some point, became one of the biggest American energy commodities and services from 1985-2001 in American. It has dominated the business world in many divisions such as; natural resources, plastics, power, steel, broadband... and principal investments. The men who were responsible of Enron’s demise were Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andrew Fastow. According to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs Enron commited high risk accounting, and disclose too many information about their cashflow. They hid their loss to attract investors for them to keep investing...

...Enron and Arthur Anderson Part Enron was established by Kenneth Lay, in 1985. Lay combined Houston Natural Gas, his organization, with InterNorth, a company situated in Nebraska, to create Enron. Kenneth Lay was the chief executive officer of the organization. Under Kenneth Lay’s management, Enron engaged in transportation of natural gas, traditional sales and consequently had stakes in future markets. Ronald Reagan’s presidency saw the 1980s experience a tremendous deregulation of energy markets. This permitted Enron and other imminent corporations to sell and buy contracts for delivery, or energy future...

...Enron. Enron’s scandal without a doubt has been the focal point for one of the biggest busts in the history of American entity (2002). The Enron Scandal and the Neglect of Management Integrity Capacity http://scholar.googleusercontent.com /scholar?q=cache:gxCBEAYU1csJ:scholar.goo). Enron was a very prosperous and prominent firm that was an American energy company established in Houston, Texas. Enron was formed in 1985 by Kenneth Lay after he had acquired two other gas companies in his quest to become a conglomerate in the American history. Nonetheless, after Enron’s biggest scandal, shareholders lost around $11 billion as the company continued... ?Examples may be stolen company data, personal...

...Enron Scandal This paper highlights various economic concepts in view of the scandal that tarnished the US corporate image – Enron Corporation. This brief paper examines economic concepts including supply and demand, incentives and unemployment, market failure, property and ownership and cost analysis. The Enron Scandal Enron ranked seventh among world’s leading American energy companies before it went bankrupted due to its poor management strategies and financial reporting (Miller & Fusaro, 2002). Enron and its audit firm - Arthur Andersen, which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy...

...Enron debacle created what one public official reported was a crisis of confidences on the part of the public in the accounting profession. List the parties who you believe are most responsible for that. Briefly justify each of your choice.
Without a doubt there is a lot of blame in the Enron debacle and the responsibility for the outcome in this debacle can be placed on many individuals and entities. These individuals and entities include:
Mr. Andrew Fastow, The Chief Financial Officer of Enron
Mr. Kenneth Lay, the Chief Executive Officer of Enron
Mr. David Duncan, the auditor who was directly responsible for ensuring that the bookkeeping was done in an ethical and accurate manner... The...

...Enron’s financial cover was blown and the financial house of cards that Andersen helped to create collapsed in five weeks. The implosion of Enron is the largest bankruptcy in American history. What is so staggering, so appalling, so outrageous is that this once $50 billion company melted to nothingness during the period November 8... Introduction Firms may window-dress the financial ments in order to show a rosy picture of their accounts. In such a case, the whole exercise of analyzing the statements becomes useless. Window-dressing is also done to forecast a better picture to shareholders, bankers and financial institutions. It is a rosier picture that what it actually is.
“In October 2000, Enron’...

...Enron contribute to its bankruptcy? Enron Corp. filed thebiggest case of bankruptcy in U.S history in December 2001 because of various unethical issues. Enron Corporation had taken pride in and strongly believed that that its personnel would take care of the rising risk without any consequences. The culture encouraged greed and centered on the amount of money that could be made for directors. For instance, Enron's compensation system appeared to be less apprehensive of generating income for its shareholders than with enriching the wealth of the company. The corporate culture at Enron reportedly promoted exploitation. The collapse of the company has shocked the entire... How did the corporate culture of...

...Enron In the most general terms, the meaning of crime can be defined as an act of wrongdoing that goes against the principles and rules laid down by a particular country or set of people. A crime committed could be attributed to a state of mind and/or body by the criminal and his/her intent. The nature of crime is determined by several legal factors depending on the circumstances and situation it was committed in. Nonetheless, several different types of crime are being committed daily. The one being presented in this paper is that of white-collar crime, also referred to as organized crime, for it is carefully planned and systematically executed over a period of time.
It was 1985 when... The Fall of...

...Enron November 23, Case study: Enron Human resource management is an essential element of organization’s management because of its sensitivity to employees’ environment. This paper reviews a case study, on Enron’s human resource management strategy and the problem that faced the company.
Summary of the case
The case outlines history of Enron that begun as a small organization and abruptly expanded before its collapse in the year 2001. Central to the temporary success was the company’s employee recruitment strategy, Employee Value Proposition, which focused on the organization as a dealmaker and expected its employees to facilitate the goal. It restructured its human resource to allow... Case study:...

...Enron & Sox Corporate Governance Essay Enron & Sox Corporate Governance Essay The Enron Case study basically revolves around the fact of the deliberate and calculated financial and managerial improprieties that were behind the collapse of the firm. The evidence adduced from the different case studies point to the fact that the company sought to build a false image of growth and performance in order to give an impression about its stature, which would be used to deceive the shareholders (Hanilton, 2003). The deliberate manipulation of the company’s balance sheets was meant to sustain its image as one of America’s rapidly growing companies that had stepped out of the conventional ways of doing...

...Enron shocked the world by declaring bankruptcy. A company that was profitable and worth over $90 a share 15 months earlier totally collapsed due to a lack of ethics, integrity, and the presence of fraudulent accounting activity. In the aftermath of this scandal the accounting profession changed forever with the arrival of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX) of 2002. The accounting... The business world is heavily dependent on trusting the accounting information provided by public companies. Stakeholder groups such as lenders, investors, suppliers, and employees make decisions concerning public companies based on the assumption that their financial statements are extremely accurate and precise. Back in 2001...

...Enron scandal was something that rocked the business world and also inspired books and movies based on it. Fake accounts and balances maintained were revealed publically and the bankrupt company, that hid behind the facade of a prosperous one, were exposed. If this is sensation enough, what is more appealing and surprising is the role of Wall Street Journal national correspondent in exposing this huge scandal.
John Enshwiller, the correspondent in question, was the one who courageously exposed this gigantic fraud. He not only performed his duty as a journalist and a responsible... R.Preeti 12/11/2007 MEDIA TODAY! The Enron ...

...Enron (History and Background of Enron) The rise and fall of big companies around the world has been as a subject of research and investigation since such cases provide valuable business and accounting lessons. One such company is Enron, whose failure led to massive losses to investors, banks and insurance companies.
The history of Enron can be traced back to 1985 in Nebraska. Houston Natural Gas Company and InterNorth Pipeline Company merged to form a new company under the leadership of Kenneth Lay (Lucian & Cristina, 2007). This new company became the first company to create a nationwide natural gas pipeline supply system. Lay was named the chief executive officer in 1986... Ethics in Accounting -...

...Enron Way Introduction The collapse of Enron at the turn of the century stunned the world. Known as one of the biggest companies, not only in the United States, but in the entire world, Enron’s financial woes came without warning as the company had always maintained a facade of financial wealth and solidity. The Enron scandal had veritably opened a can of worms in the corporate world and laid bare to the public insidious corporate practices that were made tools of deceit and conceal the truth from the public. Enron had evidently breached the line of corporate ethical correctness in the name of profits and more profits without taking into account the welfare of its shareholders... and...

...Enron Accounting Scandal Inserts His/Her Inserts Grade Inserts 4 May Accounting scandals can be easily prevented. The research focuses on the study of the Enron accounting scandal. The research delved into Enron’s window-dressing of its financial statements to present a more favorable balance sheet and income statement. The research also focuses on the liability of the Enron external auditor, Arthur Andersen. The research is divided into investigation, resolution, and prevention. Accounting fraud can be prevented. Investigation. Paul Clikeman (9) emphasized some accounting scandals took place when it should not have happened. The organizational officers should show and act... ? Accounting Fraud: Enron...

...Enron Introduction Besides having been marked by the terrorist attacksof September 11, 2001 was also the year that broke one of the largest corporate scandals, the accounting fraud at Enron. This fraud was considered one of the largest of the season by many innovative and admirable. The case had a number of consequences beyond the bankruptcy of Enron, namely, the dissolution of one of the largest accounting firms in season (Arthur Andersen) and the creation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Enron was an energy company that had the marketing of electricity and natural gas as its main activities. Its’ revenues in 2000 were (supposedly) of $ 100 billion and the market value of the company... ? of Rise and fall of...

...Enron's complex management strategy Please support your answer with examples.
Critics have identified the complicated management approach as one of the culprits that caused the firm's collapse. Initially, the company performed extensive diversification to expand its product and service lines. Because of the strategy, the company experienced robust growth and gained reputation as a multi-dimensional firm. In addition, the firm continued to evolve its business model. Considering the unpredictable circumstances and calculated risks, Enron was successful on paper... . This was reflected in the financial reports suggesting the extent of growth in the financial capability of the company....

...Enron & Sox Corporate Governance Essay Enron & Sox Corporate Governance Essay The Enron Case study basically revolves around the fact of the deliberate and calculated financial and managerial improprieties that were behind the collapse of the firm. The evidence adduced from the different case studies point to the fact that the company sought to build a false image of growth and performance in order to give an impression about its stature, which would be used to deceive the shareholders (Hanilton, 2003). The deliberate manipulation of the company’s balance sheets was meant to sustain its image as one of America’s rapidly growing companies...

...Enron Scandal Insert His/her LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ENRON SCANDAL The Enron scandal which disclosed in October 2001, led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation. Enron Corporation was an American energy company which was established in Houston, Texas. This also led to the dissolution of one of world’s fifth largest audit and accountancy partnerships known as Arthur Andersen. The bankruptcy of such a big organization is regarded as the greatest setback in American history. The dissolution of Enron was the result of its own false practices illegal dealings of projects and not showing their debts on their company’s accounts. (Project 2000_25_Corporate) It was regarded as the greatest... ?Running Head:...

...Enron Implication of Bad Managerial Ethics in Enron Ethics can be defined as morally accepted values that employees should uphold at the workplace. Ethics play a significant role in shaping the future outlook of any business venture. Therefore, success of any business venture relies largely on upholding of ethical habits that include integrity and transparency. On the other hand, the failure of a business venture can be attributed to upholding unethical values such as deception and complacency. Ethics can be understood well by paying special attention to the Enron scandal. This paper discusses the implications of unethical practice. It begins by bringing out... ? Implication of Bad Managerial Ethics in...